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The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Genetics Predicts Differences Within Families

Psychologists have known since history that things run in families. But what we've learned is that genetics can account for the similarity in families. The environment's important, but it's not this environment given by systematic effects of the parents nurture of the kids. We don't know what these environmental influences are. And i've spent 30 years trying to find them, but haven't found them. They're sort of idiosyncratic, sercastic,. they make a difference, but they're very different from each other. You know there are unforeseen events like black swan incidents and car crashes which cause people to develop certain traits such as scitsophrenia. It turns out it's all nature

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